TSA Beats MIA Co-Worker After His Genitals Are Exposed on Full-Body Scanner

[HipChick]

evidently he's sensitive about his small package...

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/05/rolando_negrin_beats_mia_co-wo.php

Rolando Negrin was Miami International Airport's guinea pig during an employee training session on full body scanning equipment last year. The machines have the unintended side effect of giving a rough determination of the size of things underneath your clothes. Apparently Negrin didn't measure up (hey, maybe he's a grower, not a shower) and his co-workers teased him about his apparent short comings.

Negrin's rage brewed for about a year, and on Tuesday night he snapped. He allegedly had a confrontation with a co-worker in an employee parking lot that night and proceeded to beat him with a baton. He told police that "he could not take the jokes any more and lost his mind."

Negrin was waiting for the victim in the parking lot after work, and wanted to talk to him about matters of "respect" in the victims car. He wouldn't let Negrin in. That's when Negrin took a baton (interesting choice of phallic weapon) and begun to hit him on the back and arms.

Negrin then demanded the witness kneel down and say "I'm sorry." The victim complied and then sped off in his vehicle. Negrin was arrested the next day, and the victim plans to press charges.

A TSA spokesman tells The Herald that Negrin has been suspended and an investigation is on-going.

Miami International Airport was one of the early adapters of the controversial full body scanning machines that leave very little the imagination. They use millimeter wave scanning technology to map out a rough image of person's naked body to determine if someone is carrying contraband in lieu of a strip search.

Originally the machines were meant to be used only on suspect passengers, but the TSA has begun to use them routinely on regular travelers as well.

[Mojambo]

1. Short... temper. n/t

[seabeyond]

3. i was thinking useless without a picture, but then realized, nothing to see here

move along.

[madinmaryland]

7. ....

:spank:

Bad, bad, bad!!

[NYC Liberal]

2. Beating someone isn't justified. On the other hand, having co-workers

harass and tease you every day for a *year* over something like that? That's sick too.

Like I said, the violence wasn't justified. His anger was.

[Generic Other]

4. And these are the folks we can trust to monitor the scans maturely

Just amazing! Like overgrown adolescents.

[Hoopla Phil]

5. Yep. This makes the case of the "wackos" that were/are apposed to this body scanners.

[ipaint]

6. Ex- homeland security head Chertoff's security consulting

company takes on one of the leading manufacturers of full body scans and we all of a sudden need them in all airports for our own "safety". Funny how that works.

[Missy Vixen]

8. It's only a matter of time before those images hit the Web

It won't be quite so funny when people who are doing nothing more than boarding a flight at MIA find their naked images disseminated to whomever would like to see them.

[HipChick]

9. He got teased for a year...and now the whole nation knows he has a small package

I guess he didn't think this out..

[sabrina 1]

10. I think he beat up the wrong person.

If he was going to expend that kind of energy, he should have gone after those who are putting these gross machines in public places, mainly for profit, part of the great WOT, the Profits of Fear Mongering, useless as far as protecting anyone from anything.

How easily we are accepting these escalating invasions of privacy. When this idea was first introduced several years ago, there was real outrage and it had an effect. But they never go away when there is money to be made, and little by little they have 'softened up' the population who seem all too willing to give up as many rights as their government, in collusion with corporations, demand of them.

And telling this story as if it were a joke, that someone's privacy was invaded to this extent, is just another example of quelling outrage by turning it all into just fun and games.

Taking away the rights of the American people has been so easy. And with each one, the next one becomes easier.

Sorry I don't find this story funny, I find it ominous in terms of the apathy of a people who would rather not be inconvenienced than fight to protect their rights.

I don't blame the guy for getting angry, but he should have realized the potential dangers inherent in allowing people's privacy to be so invaded and not participated in the 'training'. It is too late to be angry, and he is angry for the wrong reasons. The PTBs must laugh at the serfs who don't even put up a fight as they take away right after right. I am sure they thought it would be a little bit more difficult and are probably pleasantly surprised at how little resistance they get.

[ipaint]

12. +1 nt

[leftstreet]

17. +1

The PTBs must laugh at the serfs who don't even put up a fight as they take away right after right. I am sure they thought it would be a little bit more difficult and are probably pleasantly surprised at how little resistance they get.

:applause:

[Warren Stupidity]

11. "The machines have the unintended side effect" - uh BULLSHIT.

That is neither a side effect nor unintended. It is the effect and it is intentional.

[nashville_brook]

24. [phone]

[Dreamer Tatum]

31. You're right. The entire point of the security scan is to look at dicks and vaginas.

Give me a fucking break.

[Warren Stupidity]

32. The entire point of whole body scanners is to strip search people.

Where would you like your fucking break?

[WeDidIt]

13. NEVER!

I will NEVER submit to a full body scan.

EVER!

This is a huge invasion of privacy and my rights.

Fuck 'em.

NEVER!

[Bill McBlueState]

28. that's a brave stance,

but when you a) have to fly several times a year for your job and b) have to go through the scanner in order to fly, you might decide just to do it.

As much as the entire TSA theater pisses me off, I wouldn't miss an international meeting over it.

[TexasObserver]

14. Well, this will certainly stop people from talking about it!

Good plan, Rolando "Poquito" Negrin.

[Roon]

15. The TSA worker should have taken him to small claims court eom

[daleo]

16. What a disfunctional work envirinment

It sounds like a junior high school.

[Behind the Aegis]

18. I know the story sounds funny to some on the surface but,...

...it is sexual harassment. He endured a year of this and finally broke. I don't know what the laws are in England, but a good lawyer here might be able to have the charges dismissed or reduced on basis of extreme mental duress (for those who may be confused, this does not mean I advocate his response or violence in general).

[G_j]

21. it sounds like that

and adult bullying.

[HipChick]

22. It happened in Miami..

[Behind the Aegis]

30. Egg...meet face.

:( I saw your flag when I was posting and totally forgot it was Miami. :blush:

[femmedem]

26. Exactly! If only he'd used the court instead of a baton

for restitution, he'd be a lot better off now.

[JoeyTrib]

19. Best. Argument. Ever. Against. Scanners.

:)

[ima_sinnic]

20. so the conclusion is that TSA workers are a bunch of juvenile, shallow a-holes

how shallow and insensitive do people have to be to go on about something so irrelevant, and so out of the other person's control, for an entire year?
all the more reason that I will NEVER fly anywhere as long as I can avoid it. sheesh. THAT's who's "protecting" us? do they give IQ tests and then refuse jobs to people who score too high?

[pecwae]

29. I've been on the receiving

end of TSA harassment and seen firsthand the immaturity most of them display. I've heard some of them are rejects from other government agencies due to their incompetency. I can believe it.

[WinkyDink]

23. I'M ON HIS SIDE. What happened to "Nobody can be ID'ed"? Or "We value privacy"?

THEY'RE ALL LAUGHING AT YOU, TOO, AIRPLANE PASSENGERS. THINK ABOUT IT.

[RonSunn]

25. "suspended" WTF?

What ever happened to good old firing?

Charged with assault of a co-worker garners a suspension?

[jberryhill]

27. Wait Till George Rekers Goes On Another Vacation With A Rentboy! /nt